Tales of April Fool's Day origins vary. Some say the tradition
of playing pranks began about 1562 in France. Pope Gregory
introduced the Gregorian Calendar, with the year starting on Jan
1 instead of April 1, but some hadn't heard of or didn't believe the
date change. When they still celebrated the new year on April 1,
their more enlightened countrymen played tricks on them and called
them April Fools.

Today we might set all the clocks ahead two hours or put confetti in
a spouse's umbrella (or create
an imaginative magazine cover). On a grand scale, some of my
favorite April Fool's Day pranks from history include:

1933: The Madison Capital-Times newspaper reported
that the state capitol collapsed due to explosions from gases
produced by the debates of state politicians. The article was
complete with a doctored photo showing the capitol dome askew.

1949: New Zealand radio announcer Phil Shone told listeners
a mile-wide wasp swarm was headed for Auckland. He urged them
to take precautions such as wearing socks over their pants and
leaving traps outside their doors. Hundreds complied.

1957: The BBC news show Panorama announced a bumper spaghetti
crop in Switzerland, with footage of farmers pulling spaghetti
strands from trees. Viewers who called the BBC asking how to grow
their own spaghetti trees were advised to "place a sprig of
spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best."

1976: An astronomer said during a BBC Radio 2 interview that
at 9:47 a.m., Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, causing a phenomenon
that would reduce the Earth's gravity. Anyone who jumped at the
exact moment of the planetary alignment would feel a floating
sensation. Hundreds claimed to have felt this sensation.

1977: This one is close to my editor's heart: Britain's Guardian
newspaper published a seven-page supplement about an Indian Ocean
holiday spot called San
Serriffe. The two main islands, Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse,
resembled a semicolon, with towns such as Bodoni and Garamondo, a
leader named Gen. Maria-Jesu Pica, and a national bird called the
Kwote. Guinness, Texaco and Kodak ran ads. Readers called the
paper's offices all day for more information, and travel agencies
and airlines complained that customers were insisting on vacationing
in the islands. The San Serriffe Liberation Front even wrote the Guardian
editor protesting the paper's pro-government slant.

1996: Taco Bell took out full-page ads in major newspapers,
announcing the company had bought the Liberty Bell and renamed it
the Taco Liberty Bell. The Independence
National Historical Park in Philadelphia, which houses the
Liberty Bell, was flooded with angry calls.

It seems that another prank has been perpetrated at the beginning of April 2014,but perhaps not intentionally.

The formerly much praised and highly recommended British genealogy website findmypast changed the entire format and functionality of their British records site at the start of April and in immediately outraged their customers.

Customers are all saying that the site is now appalling and useless and are that they are not going to renew their subscriptions.

A storm of complaints has been generated which is still continuing and growing at an incredible rate.

Almost 1400 so far on their own feedback forum and on review sites the flood of negative reviews has already pushed a more than 90% recommendation rating on one review site down to below 90% and it's still dropping.

Pre April you couldn't have found a bad review there, now you couldn't find a good one.

The new format site which is the same variant that was already being used provide records to overseas customers seems to have proved equally unpopular with the overseas customers.

Interesting topic Admin, I would like suggest another site for Honeymoon Tour Packages i.e http://www.balajitourtravel.com and also provides various other important information regarding other tour packages.